Reflection of the National Portrait to the Associations

Abstract

In this article, based on the associative experiment method, associations reflecting the views, knowledge and imagination of Uzbek speakers about their people were identified, and based on them, the image - portrait of the Uzbek nation reflected in the minds of the speakers was described. The associations from the associative field of the Uzbek lexeme were divided into thematic groups, and it was proved that they serve to describe the image of the Uzbek people from different sides.